Drying question

[Oblivi0us]

My dry room is inside my 4x4 tent. I'm trying to replicate the cannatrol temps and humidity.
Room is at a constant 68f, 57% humidity this entire dry.
Small oscillating fan pointed at floor, intake exhaust hose at bottom left, exhaust fan running on low, top right.

I'm trying things a little different this round by using grove bags and a moisture meter guiding me for this dry.

Grove states flower must be at 10%-12% moisture to be able to put buds into the grove bags for optimum results.

I had 2 plants of slurricane that made small buds. When I checked most of the buds with a moisture meter they were from 10% to 11.5%. For a test I filled two 1 oz bags 75% of the way and put a hygrometer in there. After 12 hours hygrometer in bags are reading 57% humidity.... perfect

My question is ... if my room is perfectly dialed in, is there a need for me to worry about getting the 10%-12% level buds into the grove bags? Or would simply leaving them untrimmed hanging in the dry room for a longer dry be more ideal, will they stay at that 10-12% range? or do I risk the bud moisture dropping too low?

I only say this because today would the start of day 5 of drying. Feels like I'm trying to put them in the grove bag too soon. But at the same time if the grove bag is holding at 57% when sealed and the bud moisture is reading that ideal range of 10-12%... then it was the perfect time to put it in?

I was shooting for a 10 day dry at the very least, but these small buds were reading done. My much larger buds from the 2 other strains aren't even close to being dry.

My one buddy grows fire and he leaves his stuff hanging in the dry room at 60f, 60% rh for months and it stays sticky, smelly, and fresh... idk I just don't want to screw these up

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[SouthFloridaGenetics]

My dry room is inside my 4x4 tent. I'm trying to replicate the cannatrol temps and humidity.
Room is at a constant 68f, 57% humidity this entire dry.
Small oscillating fan pointed at floor, intake exhaust hose at bottom left, exhaust fan running on low, top right.

I'm trying things a little different this round by using grove bags and a moisture meter guiding me for this dry.

Grove states flower must be at 10%-12% moisture to be able to put buds into the grove bags for optimum results.

I had 2 plants of slurricane that made small buds. When I checked most of the buds with a moisture meter they were from 10% to 11.5%. For a test I filled two 1 oz bags 75% of the way and put a hygrometer in there. After 12 hours hygrometer in bags are reading 57% humidity.... perfect

My question is ... if my room is perfectly dialed in, is there a need for me to worry about getting the 10%-12% level buds into the grove bags? Or would simply leaving them untrimmed hanging in the dry room for a longer dry be more ideal, will they stay at that 10-12% range? or do I risk the bud moisture dropping too low?

I only say this because today would the start of day 5 of drying. Feels like I'm trying to put them in the grove bag too soon. But at the same time if the grove bag is holding at 57% when sealed and the bud moisture is reading that ideal range of 10-12%... then it was the perfect time to put it in?

I was shooting for a 10 day dry at the very least, but these small buds were reading done. My much larger buds from the 2 other strains aren't even close to being dry.

My one buddy grows fire and he leaves his stuff hanging in the dry room at 60f, 60% rh for months and it stays sticky, smelly, and fresh... idk I just don't want to screw these up

Any advice would be appreciated.

If the tent stays exactly 68f and the humidity stays exactly 57% the hanging bud will equilibrate to the environment of the tent. Your bud can stay in there for cure too!

 

[SBNDB]

The moisture meter is not really necessary. Honestly its not really made for checking moisture in plants. Its for wood, and real moisture meters even require you to enter what kind(species) of wood it is to get accurate readings. The cheap one from home depot isn’t even accurate with wood. At 60/60 ( plus or minus 3-5) , with air movement, 10-14 days will do the trick everytime. Huge buds full 14, small ones 10 anything in the middle 12 days. Throw em in the bags and you’ll be good.